I have started working on a cross country training program using Condor, and I plan to try this out over this coming winter. I thought it might be useful to publish my working draft, hoping others might find it useful and/or have suggestions for making it better. The working draft can be found here. Frank
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Using an External PDA with Condor
by Bill Elliott •
Some time ago I wrote this for a possible Condor Corner article, but later decided to do the article using the Naviter Oudie and See You Mobile instead of the Palm and SoarPilot. However, I thought it would be worthwhile to post it here for anyone interested in using Condor with an external PDA. The…
Polars and Speed-to-Fly Using the Condor Simulator
by Bill Elliott •
Speed-To-Fly is one of the most important pieces of data that competition and cross-country glider pilots require to be successful. Best Glide and Minimum Sink speeds are determined by weight, wind, and air mass conditions. I have two goals in this tutorial. The first is to show you how to use the plane settings in…
Condor book is now available!
by Bill Elliott •
Paul Remde of cumulus soaring (http://www.cumulus-soaring.com) emailed me yesterday to tell me that his shipment of my book “Cross Country Soaring with Condor” has arrived and is now available for purchase at his site. This is the culmination of many years of real-life and Condor cross-country racing, and way too many months of trials and…
Condor and the 2011 Seniors
by Bill Elliott •
As I write this I have just returned from the 2011 U.S. Seniors contest at the Seminole Gliderport near Orlando, Florida. I finished 4th overall this year, 42 points out of 3rd place and 145 points out of 1st. Another way of putting this, my overall score was 97.5% of the overall winners score. In…
The Beverly Soaring Society in Western Australia
by Bill Elliott •
The Beverly Soaring Society is largest of three Gliding Clubs in Western Australia and operates Friday, Saturday and Sunday all year round. Our location is in at the edge of the wheat-belt area east of Perth WA and our terrain is mostly flat. Each year we make a trip five hour road trip south to…
Book Excerpt: Hosting your own race in Condor
by Bill Elliott •
Here’s another excerpt from my upcoming book ‘Cross Country Soaring with Condor’. This one deals with setting up Condor to host a race on your own PC. Condor was designed from the ground up as an online multiplayer soaring simulator, so it’s not surprising that hosting an online race is pretty straightforward. When Condor is…
Joining an Online Condor Race
by Bill Elliott •
This is the second of two posts responding to a Condor Corner reader’s question about downloading sceneries and joining an online Condor race. The first post was an excerpt from my upcoming book ‘Cross Country Soaring with Condor’ dealing with sceneries, and this one is another excerpt dealing with joining online Condor races. As always,…
Installing Sceneries in Condor
by Bill Elliott •
I got an email from a Condor Corner reader asking for some help in downloading and installing Condor Sceneries, and for help with joining an online race. Instead of answering him directly, I thought I might post the information here so others can benefit. This post is a small excerpt from my upcoming book ‘Cross…
Mentoring flight with Elston Colvert
by Bill Elliott •
Elston Colvert has a fairly new glider private pilot rating, and flies with the Sandhill Soaring Club in Michigan. So far, Elston’s cross country efforts have been limited to local flying in club gliders (the club has a Grob G-102 and one other that I can’t recall), but has several multi-hour flights, and even has…
